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I haven't listened to the whole thing but the summary of America's political divide is psychological, not ideological: "American politics has become divided along epistemic and psychological grounds between "intuitionists" who think with their guts and "rationalists" who prefer science and logic."

Which Colbert nailed with
"We go straight from the gut, right sir? That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. I know some of you are going to say "I did look it up, and that's not true." That's 'cause you looked it up in a book."

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Concord MA is the a great place to argue against authoritarians.

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Cancelling Hulu/Disney+ because of the authoritarian Jimmy Kimmel censorship.

One of the things giving me any hope in this time has been, it was still ok to talk crap about the president and republicans. FCC Chair Carr (you know, the guy who wears little golden Trump in profile pins) makes it clear, if you want your billion buck merger to go through you have to suck up to Trump. Amusingly he claims to be in favor of free speech.